Painting & sketches
Painting & sketches
Painting & sketches
Painting & sketches
Some thing still can’t be explained by writing or photography. The stroke of a brush can still speak louder than the words on a page. Traditional art has shaped how I’ve seen the world ever since I received my first sketchbook in 1st grade.
Painting & sketches
Painting & sketches
gaan wandelen
(2024), 59.5”x 29.5” acrylic on modified birchwood
Loosely inspired by the intersectionality of European and American masonry, gaan wandelen explores the anxiety of time by mapping my great-grandfather’s life through the 20th century. It’s not a smooth gradient from start to finish, however one can view the piece from any direction and still find themselves at the same endpoint.
Inspired by Rembrandt, one of the most regarded Dutch portrait artists of the baroque period, this portrait takes his conventional modernity and wisdom and replaces it with the folly of presumptuousness. Rembrandt’s striking use of contrast and light was instrumental in developing my first self-portrait I can feel proud of.
(2023), 30”x 24” oil on canvas
een houdingsprobleem
Based off the Gay Head Lighthouse in Martha’s Vineyard, as a test of pointillism to define what a landscape could be. A myriad of colors dazzle an otherwise bare set of oceans and bushes, unless it’s not revealing a true nature but a different perspective upon itself.